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Books.

THE LA.TE BARON STOCKMAR.. [SECOND NOTICE.] BEFORE taking up the thread of Stockniar's further personas experiences, we must draw attention to two remarkable historical......

Dean Stanley's Edinburgh Lectures.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOB.1 SIR,—It is Dean Stanley, not I, who has "returned to the charge."' My brief note was intended merely to put your readers right on a plain......

News From The Stars.

[TO THE EDITOE OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SLR,—In your report of what passed at the last meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, you have not stated correctly, as I understood him,......